Fredric Malle's own signiture scent

If you follow FM's product brief, you will notice that his fragrances are not for everyone and that one may like one fragrance but not the other mainly because there is no theme or synopsis for the house in general. The furthest stretch for a house theme is that they revisit classics or use new ingredients to produce a new frag, a best in class type of fragrance you can say.

I think he is in the view of a person having a signiture scent. Which brings to the question, does anyone know what his own signiture scent is?

Also, his collection is starting to lose balance for guys.. Seems like he keeps producing florals and less emphasis on Oudh, incense, tobacco, leather etc. notes we see in many male fragrances from niche houses... Take for example the upcoming launch with Dries.. It is made with a special sandalwood, but made feminine... with jasmine. Not saying that it cannot be a unisex, but once again, we see florals in his composition.

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I would think this also. He'd probably wear something he's working on and currently most excited about.

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Originally Posted by pkiler

If you look at the buying public and Fragrance sales, 80% of purchases are made by females, whether for themselves or their boys.

In terms of marketing and sales, and considering that many males eschew fragrance usage, it only makes sense to weight your product offerings towards women.

But with talented Niche perfumers, there are becoming many more lines with fragrances of interest to Men...

I know that, when it comes to designer fragrances, this is very true. More than half of all men's scents are purchased by women, either to wear for themselves or purchased for the men in their lives. But the same isn't true for women's scents. Very few men wear women's scents. Even here on basenotes, I doubt that most men wear women's scents, and when it comes to Joe Public, there's no way the average guy wears women's scents. Heck, at Sephora, some unisex scents aren't even placed in the men's section. Cannabis Santal is listed in some places as unisex and in others as a men's scent, but it's sold in the women's section at my local Sephora, and it probably sells better that way. Women buy most fragrances. 80% sounds about right.

I've always wondered what the numbers look like in terms of niche sales figures. Do women buy the majority of those too? ...even among men's scents? I wonder.

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Originally Posted by spirit966

If you follow FM's product brief, you will notice that his fragrances are not for everyone and that one may like one fragrance but not the other mainly because there is no theme or synopsis for the house in general. The furthest stretch for a house theme is that they revisit classics or use new ingredients to produce a new frag, a best in class type of fragrance you can say.

I think he is in the view of a person having a signiture scent. Which brings to the question, does anyone know what his own signiture scent is?

Also, his collection is starting to lose balance for guys.. Seems like he keeps producing florals and less emphasis on Oudh, incense, tobacco, leather etc. notes we see in many male fragrances from niche houses... Take for example the upcoming launch with Dries.. It is made with a special sandalwood, but made feminine... with jasmine. Not saying that it cannot be a unisex, but once again, we see florals in his composition.

Any views on this?

His line of direction, by using florals, is what it is. Its not random. Its a strategy. A strategy contains a target customer.

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Originally Posted by spirit966

If you follow FM's product brief, you will notice that his fragrances are not for everyone and that one may like one fragrance but not the other mainly because there is no theme or synopsis for the house in general.

Keep in mind, that's all just marketing mumbojumbo. It's a way of telling potential customers "Just because you didn't like one, it doesn't mean another won't please you." It's just marketing.

Originally Posted by hedonist222

His line of direction, by using florals, is what it is. Its not random. Its a strategy. A strategy contains a target customer.

Apparently you are not it. Walk away. Enjoy the other brands.

THIS!

I find it's really helpful to trust my own nose rather than to trust hype and marketing. I'm not saying Fredric Malle's scents are nothing but hype and marketing. Quite the contrary. I'm saying to trust your own nose. If they're not for you... no worries.

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Or any perfumer at that! I read that you met with Christopher Chong the man himself!
In Basenotes, or any fragrance community, we probably will not own a scent that people identify us to due to the many scents we are testing/sampling/own. This is different to how perfumers describe fragrances (i.e how one or two fragrances fits one person, their personality, the belief that scents are a part of memory etcetc). Would be interesting to see what they wear themselves (I assume they have the more discerning noses out there themselves).

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Lorenzo Villoresi said he wears his own Uomo exclusively. Yann Vasnier used to be pretty excited about his L'Homme de Coeur, and atleast at some point wore only that. As a sidenote, I perfectly understand both. Uomo is fantastic all-around scent and the Divine scent could be my number one scent if it wasn't for certain offnote in the drydown. That beginning with juniper and possibly angelica is somehow cool and dry, with iris bringing just enough depth. Perfect top, compromised drydown. It took me around 20 wearings to spot this flaw in the drydown; too bad I can't put my finger on it (ostension isn't possible when it comes to scents).